A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
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@Gribnit
Should help with your dying prairie roof
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@Luhmann said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Gribnit
Should help with your dying prairie roofI really should go outside more often.
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@Gribnit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
go outside more
careful ... don't forget your mask
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@Luhmann said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Gribnit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
go outside more
careful ... don't forget your mask
Eh, that sounds like needlessly far outside to begin with.
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@HardwareGeek said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
There may be enough case law to clearly establish the boundaries of warrantless drone searches, but I kinda doubt it, and as a non-lawyer, I'm not familiar with whatever there is.
The information from the drone is, at best, the sort of evidence that establishes that it is worthwhile seeking a warrant for a search of the property. Especially if power company records don't describe a high-usage customer there and the total power used in an area is significantly higher than would be expected from what is being paid for.
There's no need to run the drone low for this sort of thing unless there are ATC restrictions in place.
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@Gribnit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Time to mount flamethrowers on the roof.
Doesn't work too well. Melting snow takes a stupidly large amount of energy.
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Overheard my shitcoin-enamored colleagues in the break room talking about how an exchange was "down for maintenance" and how the bigger shitcoin fanatic could no longer access his coins. Also mentions about how when that happened to a different exchange it took 5 years before people could get their coins back from it.
Wasn't cryptocurrencies marketed as the money you had control over, unlike those evil banks who could deny you access to your money on a whim?
Also, another representative quote from the conversation: "I was using Coinbase to mine Etherum, but I could not access the coins I had mined."
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@Atazhaia said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Wasn't cryptocurrencies marketed as the money you had control over, unlike those evil banks who could deny you access to your money on a whim?
It's like real money in that you can choose to store it yourself and have full control, or you can let someone else store it and not have that control.
Also like real money if you let any random unregulated company hold onto it, then, well... you're on your own when they have problems.
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@loopback0 said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Also like real money if you let any random unregulated company hold onto it, then, well... you're on your own when they have problems.
The real irony here is that you're against all this
oppressionregulation and don't want your money in the hands of a regulated institution. So instead you hand it over to some random guy from China who disappears with it into the ... ether.
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@loopback0 said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Atazhaia said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Wasn't cryptocurrencies marketed as the money you had control over, unlike those evil banks who could deny you access to your money on a whim?
It's like real money in that you can choose to store it yourself and have full control, or you can let someone else store it and not have that control.
Like real money if you let any random unregulated company hold onto it, it's gone.
Like real money if you let a known regulated company hold onto it, it's all gone.
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@dkf said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Gribnit said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Time to mount flamethrowers on the roof.
Doesn't work too well. Melting snow takes a stupidly large amount of energy.
Time to mount bigger flamethrowers on the roof.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Like real money if you let a known regulated company hold onto it, it's all gone.
At least with German banks you have a "capital insurance" - in case the bank goes bankrupt, you'll still get your money, limited to 100,000€ and checkings/savings accounts, IIRC. This limit may be higher under certain circumstances (e.g. you just sold a house and have not been able to divest the money properly yet).
All German banks have to be part of this insurance scheme and, as they are paying for it, they're interested in watching the other banks' finances.
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@Rhywden said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
At least with
GermanEU banks
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@Rhywden said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Like real money if you let a known regulated company hold onto it, it's all gone.
At least with German banks you have a "capital insurance" - in case the bank goes bankrupt, you'll still get your money, limited to 100,000€ and checkings/savings accounts, IIRC. This limit may be higher under certain circumstances (e.g. you just sold a house and have not been able to divest the money properly yet).
All German banks have to be part of this insurance scheme and, as they are paying for it, they're interested in watching the other banks' finances.
We used to have FDIC insurance on deposits but the previous administration changed it to pay out in Trump steaks.
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@Rhywden said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
in case the bank goes bankrupt, you'll still get your money, limited to 100,000€ and checkings/savings accounts, IIRC.Surprising it is that low. US FDIC covers $250000 (just over 200000 euro) for checking, savings, CD and certain types of money market. Basically if an FDIC-insured institution offers a non-insured account, they tell you so in GREAT. BIG. LETTERS. Or at least used to, I haven't looked to a bank for an investment instrument in a long time.
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@Bim-Zively said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Rhywden said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
in case the bank goes bankrupt, you'll still get your money, limited to 100,000€ and checkings/savings accounts, IIRC.Surprising it is that low. US FDIC covers $250000 (just over 200000 euro) for checking, savings, CD and certain types of money market. Basically if an FDIC-insured institution offers a non-insured account, they tell you so in GREAT. BIG. LETTERS. Or at least used to, I haven't looked to a bank for an investment instrument in a long time.
Specifically, the $250,000 is the limit (as of 2010) for all of the customer's accounts combined at that particular bank.
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@izzion Next up:
NortonFilelock has added the ability to encrypt users' files and then unlock them using Ethereum cryptocurrency mined with Norton Lifelock, all as a way to "protect" users from malicious ransomware.
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@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Gives new credence to the old saying that antivirus software is the real malware to begin with.
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Ok, so it's not exactly crypto, but what with the rise of NFT's as art, it's kind of parallel?
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There are several genius Italian artists. Do you remember
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist's_Shit
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@izzion and if you can't see the value of it you are stupid or incompetent!
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@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Ok, so it's not exactly crypto, but what with the rise of NFT's as art, it's kind of parallel?
That's just great. Now I have to update my definition of real art as "real art doesn't need installation instructions" doesn't work any more.
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@BernieTheBernie
At least artist are more sophisticated ... they can machine produced shitI guess this one was made for the USA
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@Luhmann
Holy shit!Put tattoo-ed pigs and a shit machine inside a museum
and you get someone running behind the pigs cleaning up
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@antiquarian said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Ok, so it's not exactly crypto, but what with the rise of NFT's as art, it's kind of parallel?
That's just great. Now I have to update my definition of real art as "real art doesn't need installation instructions" doesn't work any more.
Real art takes more time to produce than it takes to defend as being art.
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@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
And he didn't even call it "The Emperor's New Clothes"? What a waste of a perfect opportunity.
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@izzion for a split second I was annoyed that I didn’t come up with that for free $18k but then I realized I could have tried to sell the exact same thing and it wouldn’t be worth diddly squat.
You need to already have a famous name in the
money launderingart business to pull this off.
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@Zerosquare said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
And he didn't even call it "The Emperor's New
ClothesSculpture"? What a waste of a perfect opportunity.Might have been too obvious, though.
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@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
You need to already have a famous name in the money laundering art business to pull this off.
For what it's worth, there is a real art business, it just doesn't show up in museums. It all goes to private collectors. If you want to see some, just go to instagram and search for #contemporaryrealism.
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@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Zerosquare said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
And he didn't even call it "The Emperor's New
ClothesSculpture"? What a waste of a perfect opportunity.Might have been too obvious, though.
"Majestic Vision"
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Twitter tanked under your leadership and now shitcoin is tanking. Some fucking Midas touch.
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@DogsB said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Twitter tanked under your leadership and now shitcoin is tanking. Some fucking Midas touch.
Toby Faire, they both tanked because of politicians
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@izzion Toby Faire, they’re both more successful than they should be considering how stupid respectively completely retarded the ideas are.
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@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@DogsB said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Twitter tanked under your leadership and now shitcoin is tanking. Some fucking Midas touch.
Toby Faire, they both tanked because of politicians
There ain't no such thing as government interference.
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This is not going to end well.
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@DogsB said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
This is not going to end well.
But, it might not end worse.
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@DogsB said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Twitter tanked under your leadership and now shitcoin is tanking. Some fucking Midas touch.
Reverse Midas touch is still a sort of Midas touch.
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@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Technoking™ Elon has a cavalier attitude to everything though.
I assume that some people in Anonymous have some Bitcoin which is why they've taken issue to this particular thing.
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@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
'cavalier attitude' to cryptocurrency.
Riders have no control, and rarely much concern, for where their horses .
His horse s on ď…š
Seems appropriate.
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@loopback0 Very cute. Much cuter than St. Elon (although that's not a high bar, at all).
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@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
'For the past several years you have enjoyed one of the most favorable reputations of anyone in the billionaire class because you have tapped into the desire that many of us have to life in a world with electric cars and space exploration, but recently your carefully created public image is being exposed and people are beginning to see you as nothing more than another narcissistic rich dude who is desperate for attention.'
Wait, they only realized this now?
Anonymous then makes things personal and says Musk suffers from a superiority/savior complex and say he is hurting working-class people and their prospects with him 'constantly trolling' the crypto markets.
It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it.
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@JBert said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Wait, they only realized this now?
It only impacted something they care about now.
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@JBert said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
'For the past several years you have enjoyed one of the most favorable reputations of anyone in the billionaire class because you have tapped into the desire that many of us have to life in a world with electric cars and space exploration, but recently your carefully created public image is being exposed and people are beginning to see you as nothing more than another narcissistic rich dude who is desperate for attention.'
Wait, they only realized this now?
Anonymous then makes things personal and says Musk suffers from a superiority/savior complex and say he is hurting working-class people and their prospects with him 'constantly trolling' the crypto markets.
It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it.
Crypto speculation is a working class activity insofar as the working class overlaps with the investing poorly class.
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@Carnage said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Reverse Midas touch is still a sort of Midas touch.
Someone mentioned a Mierdas touch a while ago.
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At any rate, the vendor believes that the warranty period will, in all likelihood, expire before an average consumer hits the TBW threshold. Therefore, the product's lower endurance shouldn't affect consumers that "use the SSD as intended."
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@Zecc said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Carnage said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Reverse Midas touch is still a sort of Midas touch.
Someone mentioned a Mierdas touch a while ago.
That would be me.